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Graduate Can You Fit an Infinite Amount of Energy in a Space?

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Graduate A few questions about QM and QFT.

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Undergrad Electron spin, why do the pairs have to be opposite?

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Graduate I don't understand the paradox of entanglement

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Graduate Understanding Quantum Interpretations to Different Perspectives

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Graduate What is the relationship between HUP and particle accelerators?

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Graduate A few quantum mechanics questions

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Graduate What are the key applications of Relativistic corrections in modern physics?

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Finding Comfort in the Unity of Life: Coping with Unpleasant Events

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Graduate Does Pauli's principle prevent an electron from having infinte energy?

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Graduate What is lacking in QM that String theory wishes to fill up?

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Graduate Lerning the Standard Model and some question about QM

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Graduate How far does the Pauli Exclusion Principle apply?

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Graduate Time ordered product vs. commutator in path integral

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Graduate Path integrals and propagators

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Graduate Quantum field theory vs particle physics

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Graduate Photon-Ghost Coupling: Quantum Lagrangian Density Analysis

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Graduate Best Teleportation Fidelity to date

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Graduate Rough Description of State Space

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Graduate Complete basis for quantum oscillator Hilbert space

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Graduate How does the operator in Bra-Ket notation work in the position basis?

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Graduate What is D-Wave's Progress in Quantum Computing?

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Graduate Understanding Basis Ambiguity in Zurek's Decoherence Paper

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Graduate How did Rydberg rewrite Balmer's equation to determine it was a special case?

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Graduate Measuring velocity and position of a particle

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Graduate Is the study of black holes using entanglement practical?

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Graduate How Does Momentum Measurement Affect Uncertainty in an Infinite Potential Well?

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Undergrad "Comparing Formulas: E=p^2/2m and E=hf

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Graduate About symmetry operation and a corresponding unitary transformation

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Graduate What is Quantum Physics in simple?

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Graduate Where does the energy possessed by a free electron come from

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Graduate Where can I find a comprehensive derivation of the Euler-Lagrange equation?

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Graduate The Spin-Up/Spin-Down Effect in the Stern-Gerlach Experiment

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Graduate Operators and Complete State Descriptions in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate How does spin justify Pauli's principle?

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Graduate Why do we need a photon to mediate the electromagnetic force?

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Graduate Quarks are smaller then electrons? Are they real or virtual?

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Graduate What is the concept of spooky action at a distance?

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Graduate Have all the electrons in this universe come from a single electron?

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Graduate How Can I Build a Scanning Tunnelling Microscope for Under $150?

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Graduate Expectation Value of Momentum in H-Atom

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Graduate What Are the Best Research Articles on Quantum Dots?

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Graduate Do equivalent quantum states imply entanglement?

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Graduate Penrose: Road to Reality, just out

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Graduate Malus law in quantum mechanics

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Graduate Feynmann diagrams, bhabha scattering

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Graduate Can the Pauli principle be visualized?

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Graduate Under what conditions will quantum effects become important for gravity?

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Graduate Can Kinetic Energy Ever Be Negative in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Demystifying Spin: A QM Intro to Probability & Geometry

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Graduate What Happens to the Wavefunction After Measurement?

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Graduate Wave packets that feel harmonic potential

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Graduate Unclear about the Heisenberg uncertainty principle

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Graduate Generation of polarization entangled photons

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Graduate Hamiltonian of Minimum Uncertainty State

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Graduate What Are Spin Functions and How Do They Work?

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Graduate Perturbation Theory: Higher Order Energy + Deviation from True Solution?

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Graduate Entangled Photons with no shared Past

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Graduate Is the 2-D Wigner-Eckert Theorem applicable to cylindrical harmonics?

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Graduate How Does the Klein-Gordon Hamiltonian Define the Evolution of Field Variables?

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Graduate Is quantum field theory a genuine quantum theory?

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High School Charge of Proton & Electron: Explained

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Graduate How Many Gluons Are Inside a Proton?

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Graduate Does Quantum Mechanics Suggest Violations of Conservation Laws?

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Graduate Why the reflection and transmission?

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Graduate Understanding the Equivalence of Dirac Delta Functions in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Do Quantum Numbers Determine the Node Structure of Wavefunctions?

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Graduate Time independent schrodinger equation: delta potential

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Graduate Multiple Particles in a Box: How Does the Schrodinger Equation Change?

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High School The Double Slit Experiment: A Fascinating Introduction to Quantum Physics

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Graduate Quantum vaccum one dimensional?

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Graduate Commutators and the Parametric Nonrelativistic Particle?

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Graduate Solving the Mystery of Energy Eigenfunctions

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Graduate Question on Experiments with Entangled Particles and Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Selection rules and related stuffs

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Graduate How to Solve Quantum Mechanics Problems Using Commutation Relations

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Graduate How Do You Calculate Spectral Line Width?

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Graduate Tunneling past the speed of light

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Graduate QM of particles with no common past light cone

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Graduate Photon is different from an eletron

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Graduate KWhat conditions must a wavefunction satisfy for all values of x?

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Graduate Is this state coherent or squeezed according to the definitions given?

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Graduate Relativity & Quantum Theory: Is Locality Violated?

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Graduate Understanding the Uncertainty Principle and the Physical Reality of Electrons"

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Graduate Does the Pauli Exclusion Principle Imply Orthogonality of Quantum States?

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Graduate Why is glass QM transparent ?

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Graduate A general math theory on the quantum harmonic oscillator?

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Graduate Quantum angle selectivity of polirizers filter

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Graduate Can Entangled Particles Enable Faster-Than-Light Communication?

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Graduate Quantum Problem: Particle Motion Under Constraints and Christoffel Symbols

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Graduate Fermi Golden Rule Tutorial | PH.UTexas.edu

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Graduate Is there a minimum possible wavelength?

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Graduate What are the effects of quantum energy on macroscopic objects?

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Graduate Why Does the Bloch Sphere Use Theta Over Two for Qubit Representation?

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Graduate Even another 2-slit experiment setup

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Undergrad Neutron Decay Into Proton: Hawking's New Book

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Graduate What Does the Double Slit Experiment Reveal About the Nature of Particles?

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Graduate Unlocking Mathematical Mysteries: Wave Mechanics & Inner Product Spaces

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Graduate How Does a Flat Black Body Radiate Energy into a Hemisphere?

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Graduate Do Photons Have Different Rest Mass?

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